Senior Counsel – Independent Agency, Sales & Service

About the role

GEICO is seeking a Senior Counsel – Independent Agency, Sales & Service to lead legal guidance for the company's expanding independent and captive agent business. The ideal candidate must have at least 8 years of experience, preferably 6 years in-house, advising on independent agent and captive agent legal and business topics, insurance distribution, sales and service of insurance.

Responsibilities

• Understand all key business objectives and means of accomplishing them for supported business units, ensuring compliance with applicable insurance regulations while driving toward business success
• Serve as lead attorney for agency, distribution, sales, and service work and anticipate their future legal needs
• Collaborate with other legal teams as needed
• Provide legal guidance related to independent and captive agent topics, distribution, sales and servicing of insurance
• Use wide range of legal knowledge to issue and spot any implications of business choices that could interact with multiple legal subject areas such as privacy, insurance compliance, consumer-protection laws, insurance products, intellectual property, and contractual obligations

Qualifications

• Must have a law degree and an active law license to practice in the United States of America
• Strong listening and communication skills
• Able to quickly digest and understand business plans, processes, and procedures
• Able to provide legal advice with incomplete information
• Superb judgement about legal and legal-adjacent risks as well as mitigation opportunities
• Must be solution oriented
• Must have demonstrated experience solving business problems and advancing business metrics

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with B2B relationship management (as business partners, not vendors)
• Proven success working on novel and emerging issues
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact effectively with both internal clients and external business partners
• Ability to identify opportunities for enhancements or improvements and assist in implementation of creative solutions
• Experience providing legal support on distributing insurance or other regulated products through third parties

Pay

$148,625.00 - $260,350.00 annually

Schedule

Hybrid – This position requires the individual to work 3 days onsite at our Bethesda, MD, New York City, NY, or Cleveland, OH locations.